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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1954)
Page News Mr. and Mrs. George Park i drove to Iowa Sunday where they will visit Mrs. Park’s son, Walter Asner, and family at Woodbine, la., and Dale Asher and family at Logan, la. Mrs. Elsie Cork ac companied them as far as Ottawa, la., where she will visit her sis • ters and other relatives. The Page Extension club sent a box of toys and clothing to Pfc. Merman Trowbridge in Korea so the Korean children might en joy Christmas. The box failed to reach him until some time in Jan uary. He then gave it to the chap jam to distribute to the needy. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Holliday and children of Orchard visited Sun day with Mrs. Holliday’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dobbin. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jensen of Royal, formerly of Page, ac cbmpanied by Mr. and Mrs. Guy O’Day and Mrs. Lottie Waver of Tilden, visited in the Plenn Nick el home at Caldwell, Ida. They will return home via the sohthern route and will visit relatives and friends at several points. The Golden Rule extension club entertained their families at a chili supper Saturday evening at j the Legion hall. After supper the group played progressive pitch with high prize going to Mrs. ; Lester Riege and Ray Snell, and low to Mrs. Harrison Hallman and Harold Asher. Friends here received word of the death of Mrs. Ida Frey, 94, who died Friday at Pierce. She was the mother of Mrs. Wilton Hayne, a longtime resident of Page. Mrs. Frey had visited here many times. Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Ickes visit ed at the Allen Haynes home Monday evening. Harley Kennedy returned home Friday from Miami, Fla., where he had attended the national REA convention. Enroute home he vis ited his son, Warreji, and family in Chicago, 111. Leo Neubauer, FN, and Mrs. Neubauer left Wednesday, Jan uary 20, for Long Beach, Calif., where he will be stationed. Mr. and Mrs. Neubauer had spent his leave here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Neubauer, and; "With' other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Haynes of Gumsey, Wyo., and Mrs. Eu nice Brown of Lusk, Wyo., vis ited for a short time Wednesday; aiternoon, January 20, with Mr. | and Mrs. Allen Haynes. They were enroute home, from Garret-! s-orf, S.D., where they had attend- I ed the funeral of a relative. Del-1 bert is a nepheyir of Allen Haynes. Ralph Brostrom spent the weekend in Grand bland. Mrs. Brostrom and son, Brady, who j ...-^-*- ■—! had spent the past week there j with her parents, returned home with him. Southard, Ex-Hired Hand, Sought Robert Southard, about 43, for mer hired hand at the Art Kap lan place southwest of Atkinson, is being sought by county and state law enforcement officials and also the federal bureau of investigation. Kaplan last week reported the loss of his pickup truck loaded with salt and coal. The abandon ed vehicle was found near the Kansas - Nebraska Natural Gas company headquarters in O’Neill early last Thursday after the ve hicle had turned up missing from the Kaplan place two days earli er V Last Thursday afternoon Kap lan reported to Holt County ( Sheriff Leo Tomjack that their j farm home had been ransacked. • Piggy banks belonging to three Kaplan children had been looted ns 'veil as some currency kept in j a bureau drawer, totaling be-1 tween $135 and $140. A pickup order on Southard was issued immediately. South ard came to the Kaplan place last July from St. Louis, Mo. The FBI is interested in the case in that Southard may have fled the state to avoid prosecution. • ____________________ Postponed Plays Finally Presented— AMELIA — The two one-act plays presented by the Amelia high school room Thursday eve- ! ning, January 21, were enjoyed by a large crowd. The plays had been postponed three times on account of bad weather and sickness. Mr. Car son, the instructor, was not able to be present this time on account of illness. Finishes Radar Course A/2c Edmund R. Kaup (above), who recently complet ed 22 weeks of radar schooling at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Miss., is now stationed at the Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio. Air man Kaup is the son of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kaup, jr. He graduated from Stuart high school and attended Nor folk junior college two years before enlisting in the air force. His address now is: A/2i Edmund R. Kaup 17367184, 1914 - 8 AACS detachment, Wright - Patterson air force base, O. •e* State Capitol News . . - Connors, Ver Maas Aid Griffith By MELVIN PAUL The Frontier's Statehouse Correspondent Weekly Market Report of The Atkinson Livestock Market Atkinson, Nebraska Tuesday, January 26th, Auction • Cattle receipts totaled 1,523 head at Tuesday’s auction in a sale which was one of the season’s best. An exceptional ly large'crowd of buyers filled the seats to bid on a very choice offering of cattle. The sale of the Ralph. Garwood cows was the biggest event of the afternoon with the top load of young cows bringing $153.00 per head, and the top 160 head averaging $144.00 per head. All classes of replacement cattle .sold stronger than a week ago. • There was a large offering of calves and the quality ran high—top consignment sold for $22.45 cwt. with several loads selling from $21.00 to $22.00. Plainer kinds were bringing $19.00 to $20.50 but the supply of these kinds was limited. The heifer mates to the top steer calves brought $18.00 while all the choice heifers sold from $17.00 to $18.00. There were cheaper kinds bringing from $15.75 to $16.50. • Forty-two head of strictly choice 573 lb. yearlings brought the day’s top of $22.00 cwt. Good kinds brought,-from $18.50 to $20.00. In the yearling heifer sales $16.50 was the best price paid on some 595 lb. kinds but only a limited supply was available. • The breeding bulls that were consigned sold from $215.00 to $415.00 per head. • Action in the butcher cattle class was good, mostly 50 cents cwt. higher—the best bef cows bringing $10.25 to $12.00, canners and cutters $8.50 to $10.00, bologna bulls mostly $10.00 to $12.25 cwt. • Next Auction Feb. 2nd. This wil be one of our largest sales. If you like our prices—give us your next consign ment. Your business is appreciated. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Atkinson Livestock Market Phone 5141 Atkinson, Nebr. C=^=3) Nothing in the home y~1 jv SERVES SO MANY-COSTS SO LITTLE as fNAsXsRAL HOtM PERMAGLAS HEATER BO Gal. Size. Glass lined $ I I Q50 tank guaranteed 10 years. I I w NOW! EXTRA ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD WATER HEATING EQUIPMENT Plenty of hot water at your house? If not, trade in your old water heating equipment for an economical Permaglas Natural Gas Water Heater. Even your old teakettle or wash boiler is worth good money during the Kansas-Nebraska spring trade-in sale. Natural Gas heats water faster . . . cheaper. Bring your water heating equipment up to date NOW. See your Kansas-Nebraska manager about a trade-in TODAY. easy terms with your gas bill m # For Dependable UAS service LINCOLN — That county boards striving to better their roads may be missing a $3 mil- 1 lion bet was emphasized this1 week at the statehouse by State Engineer L. N. Rtss. The official told a couple of road delegations that if they were really interested in getting their roads improved they had better visit their courthouse and prod their county board rather than coming to the statehouse. This is because approximately $3 million in federal funds are available to Nebraska county boards who are willing to match it cvn their county road systems And what’s more, Ress told the delegations, •iis money will lapse unless Nebraska counties use it. The news apparently came as a revelation to at least one delegation—a group from Ai nold in Custer county. The delegation asked Ress what the chances were of the state building a road from A rnold north toward Dunning. Ress replied that the state didn’t have such funds. Then he looked at the map and announced that the Custer county board had placed this particular road on its county highway system. That made it eligible for federal funds on a 50 - 50 basis. All that was needed was providing one - half the cost. First step is to have a road aurhorized as part of the coun ty highway system. This can be done by a resolution passed by the county board. Ress said that approval is almost certain to come from stale and federal authorities. This opens the way for use of federal funds. Any subdivision may put up the matching funds but t hey must be handled through the county. That is, a township may furnish 50 per cent of money needed but the county must make the request for the federal government’s 50 percent. Reason for this, accord ing to Rees, is that there is enough paper work connected with communicating with 93 Nebraska counties, let alone all the town snips. I Cities and villages, too, may i take advantage of this pot of gold. Federal authorities are liberal enough on this subject to allow this kind of setup. A countv decides to improve a stretch of road with its own equipment. It may cha ge off the labor and equipment cost against the amount it is supposed to furnish. Ress said he is worried that people in so many Nebraska counties don’t seem to know that this road improvement money is sd readily available. He said they lcok to the state house to reconstruct their farm to - market roads, not realizing that they can get aid from the federal government via their own courthouse. The state engineer said that county boards have been tcdd time and time again about this available federal aid secondary money. He said that he hoped they would Dass on the word to their constituents. * * * Road Maps — Speaking of county highway systems, Ress has reminded county boards that they have until September 44 to submit maps of their county road net work to his office. If a county doesn’t do set it stands to lose its monthly share of the state gasoline revenue. The law requiring submission, of such maps has been on the books for years but few county boards bothered to send them in. So the 1953 legislature passed an amendment to the law put ting some teeth into it. Realizing that all the counties depend heavily on the gasoline tax revenue, the legislature okayed an amendment to chop off this source of income to counties which don’t comply. September 14 is the deadline. Ress said there were several methods bv which a county board could determine its road system. Best way is to do some traffic counting to see which roads are traveled most. In Johnson county an origin and destination survey was conduc ted. Farmers driving along the road we e stopped and asked where they came from and where they were going. This information was compiled to determine which were the coun ty’s artery reads. Another me*hod is to lay out a grid providing for a county ’■oad every so many miles. The third, and worst, according to Ress, is to decide on the system accerding to political pressures. * * * Griffith Saved — The state pardon board com muted the death sentence of Hugh Griffith ctf Sidney to life imprisonment at the state pen itentiary. Had the board not | taken the action, Griffith would i have gone to the electric chair February 15 on c h a r g e s of ; -— Tom - Tom i >Q j ★ We’re Now Open Sundays 7 A.M. Until 1:30 P.M. ★ JOYCE DARLING — Mgr. — slaying his wife, Anna, with a shotgun on June 20, 1952. Griffitn had steadfastly maintained he was innocent al though a Cheyenne county jury had found him guilty and the Nebraska supreme court had upheld the conviction. A young Lincoln attorney. Mr*. Nor* Ver Maas, entered the case six weeks ago and did considerable investigation in the Sidney area. Among other things she claimed county officials had made no effort to check Griffith's alibi that on the night of the shooting he was at an oil drilling site located 25 miles southwest of Sidnev. Cheyenne County Attorney lack Knicely of Sidney was also present at the hearing and said that Griffith had committed a “planned, cold-blooded murder” and had had his day in court, fie contended that Mrs. Ver Maas aad brought in absolutely no evidence to show that officials nad “framed” Griffith. Gov. Robert Crosby and Secretary of x>ard Atty. - Gen. C. S. Beck reduce the sentence while the ather member of the three man State Frank Marsh voted to iissented. The reason seemed to , ae that Mrs. Ver Maas had1 — — — — — — — — ~ succeeded in throwing a shadow of doubt on the entire matter. Holt countians have had a special interest in the Griffith case because Harold Conners, formerly of CWeill and Atkinson, was aopointed by the Cheyenne court to defend Griffith. Conners then was practicing law at Sidney. And Mrs. VerMaas is formerly of Chambers, having attended school there. Only recently was she admitted to the bar. • • • Lid Siill On — The state liquor commission chairman, Tal Coonrad, explained that the commission’s action in granting four extra licenses at Fremont did not mean the group intends to “open up” licenses in other towns. He said that the rule of thumb brought out in the Fremont case—one liquor license for every 1,500 persons— was mentioned by the com mission. Coonrad said that diff erent towns have different rates of consumption. Besides the commission wants to work along with city governing bodies except where he thinks the public welfare warrants state action, he said. * * * Weight Restrictions — With the announced purpose ! of saving the state’s highways daring the spring breakup, the state highway department an nounced truck weight limits on a number of state roads. The | February 1 public hearing I on these limitations is expected to bring some hot argument. The department said its intent ions were to keep too heavy trucks from possibly tearing up these highways when the spring thaws make the ground under them unstable. They would go into effect Februrarv 15. • * • Plan Scuttled — The state central committee of the republican party is scheduled to meet here Februrary 1. Informed sources say one ! purpose of the session is to drive the final nail into the coffin of the plan to change the legislature back to the par' isan two-house body it was before 1937. The republican committee is expected to repudiate its earlier action which had favored changing the present non partisan cne-house legislature. Reason is that party leaders haven’t found the sup port they expected. Even finding persons to bear the petitions has been difficult. One leader of the movement to change the legislature said that the effort now might be to enlarge the unicameral and have its member? elected on party tickets. Linda Sue Walton Is 6— Little Linda Sue Walton cele brated her si~th birthday anni versary last Thursday at a party at her home. Pink-and-Blue Shower Held— The Friendly Neighbors club met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Harold Calkins. Eleven members were present. The lesson on low calorie diets was given by Mis. Bennie Hill and Mrs; John Wildes. They also served refreshments. The club also had a pink-and blue shower for Mrs. Roy D. Johnson in honor of Karen Lynn, who was born January 4. She re ceived many gifts. F-TA Meet Postponed 48 Hours— The regular monthly meeting of the Parent-Teachers’ associa tion, scheduled Monday, Febru ary 1, has been postponed until Wednesday, February 3, at 8 pm., in the public school band room. The program will feature a panel discussion by the board of education and the topic will be “Better Schools.” Mothers of the eighth graders will serve. EDW. M. GLEESON DENTIST 2d Floor Gllligan Rexall Bldg. Ph. 240 - Box 149 - Hrs 8:30-* W. F. FINLEY, M.D O’NEILL | First National Bank Bldg OFFICE PHONE: 28 SFT’S EETA [g. 89c — _ ET jar . Sack 49 CAMP :BEANS . 2yz Cans | •* *»•.99c I HAPPY HOUR | Coffee I Lb. Can.87c PREM.Can 49c PETER PAN SOAP..4 bars 25c CANDYLAND Marshmallows.. 2 pkgs. 39c SUNBRIGHT CLEANSER.2 cans 23c MA BROWN STRAWBERRY PRESERVES Jar 35c TUNA FISH .... 2 cans 49c j KARO RED “ SYRUP.5-lb. pail 55c | TOMATO SOUP, 3 cans 3§c 1 CHEESE WIZ.Jar 33c 1 NORTHERN If TOILET TISSUE 3 rolls 27 c § (Colored and Quartered) 6 $ . 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